Full Notification

                Lt. Chris Taylor of the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office charged Miranda Lea Gatewood, 27, address listed as Wildberry Drive in Marion, with two counts of serious injury by vehicle and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
                Deputy D.J. Jones charged Gatewood with two counts of child abuse and one count of simple assault.
                Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, July 13, deputies responded to Wildberry Drive in reference to a domestic dispute.
                They learned that Gatewood assaulted a male at the house, hit him with her car and left the area with her two children.
                Authorities then learned that Gatewood had wrecked her vehicle on Sugar Hill Road, and they found her to be impaired.
                Gatewood and the kids were taken to the hospital for treatment.